Offsetting object position?

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Hi all, just wanted to see if anyone had a way on offsetting object positions or taking in info about the object you’re ray casting and calculating a different placement position.

As you can see, when ray casting I hit the cubes collider that is facing me - and the object I am placing is moved to the correct side, however it’s center is used, resulting in it placing halfway into the block.

would I be using something like collider.bounds.center to calculate an offset?

just for an FYI, I have very flat box colliders on each side of the cube (0.01 size!)
thanks!

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just in case anyone comes across this post on their mad searches for this type of thing since there isn’t really resources on it for beginners, I solved it myself with the following:

if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, placeDistance))
        {
            Vector3 newPosition = hit.point;

            if (hit.transform.GetComponentInChildren<ConnectionPoint>())
            {
                //Get the size of the object that you are looking at by accessing its collider component.
                Bounds objectBounds = hit.collider.bounds;

                //Calculate the center point of the object by adding half of its size to its position.
                Vector3 objectCenter = hit.collider.GetComponentInChildren<Collider>().transform.position + objectBounds.extents;

                newPosition = objectBounds.center;
                currentPlaceableObject.transform.root.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal);
            }
          
            currentPlaceableObject.transform.position = newPosition;
            currentPlaceableObject.transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal);
        }

note: I know using a script to find an object is probably hilariously bad, but it’ll do for now :wink: